Notes Client ODS Upgrades

Attended Paul Mooney’s Adminblast session at IamLUG where one of the tips was to upgrade the ODS of client databases on client upgrade. See IBM Technote here.

This reminded me that during our 8.5 client upgrades, we saw a handful of PCs with consistent Notes crashes because clients’ names.nsf files were still on the 20 ODS (IBM support confirmed that this was a known issue which we resolved by the workaround in the technote).

According to sources that aren’t my memory, ODS 20 is from release 4 which was released in 1996. As you might guess, the affected people had been with the company for years. (I am surprised at the reminder of how long we have been running Notes).

Not a major problem given so few were impacted but a good reason to have been compacting client databases to the 8.5 ODS upon upgrade.